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Since my update to Ubuntu 11.04 I missed a very, very useful and important feature for people like me, working most of the time on the console.

I don't care which window-manager-system-style I'm using. GNOME, KDE, LXDE or whatever as long as the terminal is starting fast.

In Ubuntu 11.04 is a bug with the bash_completion. This helps you completing the filenames with the TAB-key. Especially with filenames and directories with spaces or German "Umlaute".

Right now, I spent half an hour to google for a solution and it's so simple. There is only an error in /etc/bash_completion (line 1587):

# makeinfo and texi2dvi are defined elsewhere. 
for i in a2ps awk bash bc bison cat colordiff cp csplit \     
curl cut date df diff dir du enscript env expand fmt fold gperf gprof \     
grep grub head indent irb ld ldd less ln ls m4 md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod \     
mv netstat nl nm objcopy objdump od paste patch pr ptx readelf rm rmdir \      
sed seq sha{,1,224,256,384,512}sum shar sort split strip tac tail tee \        
texindex touch tr uname unexpand uniq units vdir wc wget who; do     
have $i && complete -F _longopt -o filenames $i 
done 

This bug has been discussed on the bugtracker at launchpad:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash-completion/+bug/769866